I got one of these NON-refurb from Office Max for $50 with free shipping last week. Did not know it was a "Hot Deal" or else I would have posted it. Got it from UPS two days ago. I think these go on sale pretty often.
Edit: Double checked and it is in fact a 2140 and NON-refurbished. Just...
I have no idea what post or advice of mine that you are referring to.
I will restate for clarity that a "good" PSU outputs what the little sticker on the side says it can output. A great PSU will exceed it's claims. A medicore PSU, though good enough for most people, will not do what it says...
If you need 546w you are better off with a well made 550w PSU that can put out 550w than with a 650-700w PSU that starts having problems over 450w. Thats what I am saying. Really, you are beter off with a 650-700w PSU that can put out 650-700w.
Also: No one called it a crap PSUs. It was...
How old is your Antec 380?
I would think that 380 would be fine for what you have. Pushing it, but fine as long as your PSU isn't over a couple years old. Could it be a problem with the drivers? I would try to reinstall your drivers first.
Also: SSDs boot really fast. I push the power button as I walk to my computer and by the time I am comfortable in my seat I am ready to log in. Hibernation is for laptops that may run out of battery even with very low power draw. Sleep is for computers that are plugged into the wall.
Thats actually a really good point. I stand corrected. Also: In the pre-edit post I responded to res was not mentioned.
Edit: Although with Dual link DVI its gotta be pretty high right?
I know he didn't ask about upgrading his CPU. Not every computer has to be balanced. I'm not saying you are wrong. I am saying "Oh crap....another one of those threads".
Edit to add: Im NOT saying you are wrong. Gosh I need some sleep. I apologize.
Oh no! This is gonna turn to a "Your CPU will never be able to feed that GPU and your computer will be unbalanced!" threads!!!! :p
His CPU is unimportant. He has the power and bandwith to run the best card he can get with $300, which is the 5850. The 5850 supports dual link DVI. Those were...
Just drop one of these in there, you should be fine on all fronts. PCIe 16x 1.0 runs at half of the bandwidth of PCIe 16x 2.0. Lots of people run their Xfire rigs just fine as 8X/8X which gives each card the same bandwidth of PCIe 16x 1.0. I wouldn't worry about it. It has dual link DVI and...
Instead of using your onboard RAID 5 just have a cheap 600-700Gb drive as a backup drive. That protects you against drive failure and MB failure at the same time while putting a lot less stress on the back-up drive.
Blowing air into your case, over the MB and back out the case will lower your temp.
Whats wrong with your temp? What is your temp? What is the temp in your room?
I have the current 9.5.3 drivers which were released in NOV 09. This is my first RAID card and I am not sure what to expect but I read on one forum or another that 9.5.3 was going to be the last non-LSI software update released.
Is it reasonable to expect 3ware to continue to support their...
I build all of my computers the way you do. A little by little. I also agree that its best of buy all at once but I enjoy the deal hunting.
Anyway I say get an Antec 300. You don't know much right now. Get a quality, low priced case now and spend the big bucks later when it actually matters...
20% free for speed on Intel drives.
First thing you do before installing anything is shrink the partition by 20%. Anand details exactly how in one of his SSD articles.
Install Windows and turn off hibernation in the CMD and install your programs. Move the locations for all your...
Yeah, its just a way for PSU makers to give you the option of having either a 6 or 8 pin PCIe connector on the same leg. Thats why the 2pins are seperate. I know you probably already knew this and wanted to make sure. Its cool.
Better to ask a dumb question than to try to fix a dumb mistake.
Honestly I always buy the case last. Make sure you can afford everything else you want first and then spend whats left over on the case. Would suck to spend $200+ on a case and suddenly end up not quite being able to afford a 5870.
The CM690 is a solid case that is reasonably priced.
Do...
Im sure your 550w PSU is putting out 250w all day long. Why wouldn't it. A "good" PSU will put out 550w all day long if its rated at 550w.
A PSU "snob" wants that 550w PSU to run a 280 SLI rig all day long because its rated to do so. A medicore PSU won't be able to. That Fatal1ty won't be...
If you really want to upgrade but don't have any games you want to play just buy another monitor now. I figure that by the time a game comes out that you "have to play" everything will be different and your $200 will go a lot further.
I am building a couple of gaming computers for friends with no money and I would like to keep it as cheap as possible since I also have no money.
One computer is going to have that 9750 that went on sale a few days ago but as it is OEM I have no HSF for it. I found in my closet an old HSF...
Most computers that end-users build don't actually use near as much power as their PSUs rate themselves.
Mediocre means that it will run your system fine because your always gonna be a couple hundred watts under whats rated.
Good means it will do what its rated to do without destroying...
I don't think anyone is saying that you killed this deal but that in the future please try to avoid calling because it has been known to kill deals in the past.
"And yes, employees are very grateful when you call and alert them to a deal they otherwise might not be aware of. "
True dat. Also: prices in the computer may not be reflected in on the shelf and changes to the pricing of a single item may not be circulated to the employees or even section...
Nyker- The 620 trades blows with the old Core2Quads. The 9750 got stomped by them. In other words the 620 cost 50% more but only performs 5-20% better depending on the bench. Still 50% more is only $32 so it may still be worth it to you.
I don't use it but a friend of mine is looking for a laptop to run it from. The problem is that neither of us know what matters hardware wise with Illustrator. Any input with would be appreciated.
Would an I5 based laptop with 4gig ram be a good bet?
I had a story about a friend who wanted me to do a $600 upgrade her Mac G4, because she owned software that she had never installed nor had any use for but would cost thousands of dollars to replace with new versions. Then I realised what really gets to me.
People using 15" CRTs from 1996...
You can get the driver only. Its under "option 2-individual downloads". Its the one called "Display Driver" and just so you can be sure to get the right one, its 46.8 mbs...
I don't get it. I boot into Vista off a HDD and run test on the RAID 0 SSDs and its every bit as fast as I want it to be. I install windows onto the array and its runs at about 1/3 the speed. Not even that, but its much slower than it was before. I can hit 380mb/s on HD Tune if I boot from...
Nope. This is my only MB. I don't really want to buy another MB just to test with. The card I have no problem using with only HDDs. If I can use SSDs on it, well thats just gravy. I tried with the Asus drivers and the MS drivers in W7 and by far the W7 drivers perform better. I recently upgraded...
True, they are different but the Vertex is nothing special. Not to where it is twice as fast as a Vertex. Heck, its faster than my RAID. If your not doing anything differnt on your board then the problem exist on my own. I know the 9650se is not the best card for SSDs, I knew that when I...
MalVeauX- I get what your saying, but we both have OCZ SSDs with the same controller. My single SSD on the MB gets no where near your performance. What MB are you using? What drivers?
Well, I've spent the past couple of days trying out every configuration of RAID that my card allows and running benchmarks on them.
I just wanted to see what was making my results "off". These are the settings I found best. They are my original settings. After letting the drive idle for a...
I use a vac with with the plastic brush attached. I just wipe it all down with an anti-static dryer sheet from time to time. I'm pretty sure its a waste of time and a dryer sheet, plus I can clean an old computer in less than a minute this way, but it has worked well for me so far.
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